Friday, January 22, 2010
International Headline News
>TOP STORIES as of 1000 GMT -- 22 January, 2010
> 'MIRACLE ON HUDSON' PLANE UP FOR AUCTION
The plane that landed with 155 people aboard in the frigid
waters of New York's Hudson River last January after a bird
strike disabled its engines is up for auction.
> HAITI PORT REPAIRS A TOP PRIORITY FOR AID
Authorities pushing to clear earthquake-relief bottlenecks in
Haiti hope to restore two-way traffic at the city's south pier
by Friday.
> HAITIAN POLICE KILL MAN OVER 'STOLEN RICE'
Haitian police shot and killed a man they suspected of stealing
rice in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince on Thursday, leaving
his body on the sidewalk for hours as his family mourned.
> NY WOMAN: LIST OF KIN MISSING IN HAITI
The list of relatives Widline Germain has not heard from since
Haiti's earthquake seems like a town population in itself.
> CLINTON: CHINA SHOULD PROBE WEB ATTACKS
In a speech on Internet freedom and security, U.S. Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton urges China to investigate a wave of cyber
attacks against Google and other firms.
> IS IT 'HIGH NOON' FOR GOOGLE, CHINA?
Now that the big guns have waded into the public standoff
between Google and China, who will be the next to blink?
> U.S. COURT EASES ELECTION SPENDING RULES
The U.S. Supreme Court has eased long-standing restrictions on
"independent spending" by corporations and unions in political
campaigns.
> RODDICK ADVANCES AT AUSTRALIAN OPEN
Andy Roddick rallied from a set down to edge Spaniard Feliciano
Lopez on Friday in a tense match that saw the American advance
into the fourth round.
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BUSINESS
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> CHINA'S WEB TITANS LEAVE WEST BEHIND
They may not be household names in the West like Google, eBay
and Facebook, but in China -- which has more Internet users than
the entire population of the United States -- they are the
champions of the world's largest Internet market.
> OBAMA WANTS TO LIMIT BANK SIZE
U.S. President Barack Obama publicly signed on to a message that
former Federal Reserve chief Paul Volcker has been giving for a
year: Let's limit the big banks.
> GOLDMAN SHRINKS ITS BONUS POOL
Goldman Sachs sought to counter the public furore over pay by
shrinking the portion of revenue set aside for compensation to
its lowest level since the bank went public in 1999 and giving
more money to charity.
